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UNFINISHED BUSINESS
Bill No: SB 739
Author: Peace (D)
Amended: 7/16/01
Vote: 27 - Urgency
Prior Senate votes note relevant
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : 54-26, 7/16/01 - See last page for vote
SUBJECT : State Budget Act of 2000-01
SOURCE : Author
DIGEST : Assembly amendments delete the prior version.
As it left the Senate, this bill, authored by Senate Budget
and Fiscal Review Committee, was intended to be a possible
Trailer bill relative to administration of state
government.
This bill contains the contents of SB 75 (Peace), the
2000-01 State Budget Bill with various changes, as
specified in the Analysis section below.
ANALYSIS :
Budget Process Overview
With the submission of the Governor's Budget, which is
required by January 10 of each year, the chair of the
Senate Budget and Fiscal Review and Assembly Budget
Committees each introduce a Budget Bill which contains
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appropriations to finance the program levels proposed in
the Governor's Budget. Throughout the spring, and with the
assistance of committee consultants and the Legislative
Analyst, who prepares a detailed analysis of the Governor's
Budget, the fiscal committees of each House of the
Legislature hold hearings to determine if changes should be
made in the Governor's Budget. At these hearings,
representatives from the state department whose Budget is
being heard, the Department of Finance, the Legislative
Analyst, and the public may be called upon to provide
official testimony.
Changes desired by the Administration concerning events
occurring after the Governor's Budget is submitted are
included in "Finance Letters" addressed to and considered
by the Senate and Assembly Budget committees.
In mid-May, the Department of Finance updates its estimates
of current year, and budget year revenues, expenditures
(including any final Administration expenditure proposals)
and surplus. This provides the Legislature with the most
current estimate of resources that will be available for
expenditure.
At the completion of all the hearings, each House passes
its Budget Bill, a Conference Committee of six legislators
is chosen to receive differences in the two bills and to
incorporate a "Conference Committee Version" into one of
the bills. The bill is then sent to the floor of each
House and, if passed by two-thirds, is enrolled to the
Governor. If it is not passed, a new Conference Committee
is formed and the conference process is repeated. Some
times it has become necessary for the Senate Pro Tem,
Assembly Speaker, Senate Minority Leader, Assembly Minority
Leader, and the Governor to meet to resolve major issues.
The Legislature is required under the State Constitution to
pass the Budget by June 15th of each year.
Upon receipt of the Budget Bill, the Governor meets with
his advisors to make reductions or eliminate particular
items of expenditure (known as the item-veto). The
Governor then signs the Budget Bill, and it becomes the
Budget Act. Under the State Constitution, the Governor
must sign the Budget by June 30th of each year. The
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Legislature may then consider overriding any vetoes the
Governor has made and may do so by a two-thirds vote of
each House.
This bill is the $101.1 billion State Budget for 2000-01
which was contained in SB 75 with the following additional
amendments specified below:
1. Augments the Budget Act by $27.3 million, including
$19.3 million (General Fund) and $8 million (Public
Transportation Account), for Agricultural and Rural
Relief Rebates of sales tax paid for farm and forestry
equipment and machinery ($ 13 million), diesel fuel used
in agriculture ($8 million), liquefied petroleum gas for
residential use ($5.5 million), and thoroughbred
breeding stock ($800,000).
2. Augments the Budget by $8 million for Klamath River
Crisis Economic Assistance and Mitigation activities.
3. Augments the Budget by $5 million for the "Buy
California" program.
4. Augments the Budget by $33.35 million for additional law
enforcement activities, including a $10 million
augmentation (total of $30 million) for local law
enforcement grants and control language providing a
minimum grant to the sheriff departments of rural and
small counties to supplement and not supplant current
law enforcement activities, and $5.35 million for
additional augmentations to specified police
departments.
5. Adds provisions to the Budget to reimburse the full
costs incurred by the County of Shasta for the homicide
trial of the People v. Williams and Williams , the County
of San Luis Obispo for the homicide trial of the People
v. Krebs , and the County of Placer for the homicide
trial of the People v. Juarez Suarez .
6. Augments the Budget by $5 million (State Highway
Account) for the City of Shafter for the Southern San
Joaquin Valley Intermodal Facility.
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7. Augments the Budget by $300,000 to reimburse school
districts for costs incurred from snow removal
activities
8. Augments the Budget by $50,000 for the California
Postsecondary Education Commission to conduct a study of
higher educational needs of students in Superior
California.
9. Augments the Budget Act by $3.24 million for various
local projects.
FISCAL EFFECT : Appropriation: Yes Fiscal Com.: Yes
Local: No
Provides for a $101.1 billion State Budget.
ASSEMBLY FLOOR :
AYES: Alquist, Aroner, Briggs, Calderon, Canciamilla,
Cardenas, Cardoza, Cedillo, Chan, Chavez, Chu, Cohn,
Corbett, Correa, Diaz, Dickerson, Dutra, Firebaugh,
Florez, Frommer, Goldberg, Havice, Horton, Jackson,
Keeley, Kehoe, Kelley, Koretz, Liu, Longville, Lowenthal,
Matthews, Migden, Nakano, Nation, Negrete McLeod,
Oropeza, Papan, Pavley, Pescetti, Reyes, Salinas,
Shelley, Simitian, Steinberg, Strom-Martin, Thomson,
Vargas, Washington, Wayne, Wesson, Wiggins, Wright,
Hertzberg
NOES: Aanestad, Ashburn, Bates, Bogh, Bill Campbell, John
Campbell, Cogdill, Cox, Daucher, Harman, Hollingsworth,
La Suer, Leach, Leonard, Leslie, Maddox, Maldonado,
Mountjoy, Robert Pacheco, Rod Pacheco, Richman, Runner,
Strickland, Wyland, Wyman, Zettel
DLW:sl 7/17/01 Senate Floor Analyses
SUPPORT/OPPOSITION: NONE RECEIVED
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